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Nik Bessis is currently a senior lecturer and head of postgraduate taught courses, in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at University of Bedfordshire (UK). He obtained a BA from the TEI of Athens in 1991 and completed his PhD (2002) and MA (1995) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research interest is the development of distributed information systems for virtual organizations with a particular focus in next generation Grid technology; data integration and data push for the creative and other sectors.

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Giuseppe Andronico received his degree on theoretical physics with his thesis on the methods in Lattice QCD on July 1991. Since 2000, he is working in Grid computing collaborating with EDG, EGEE and other projects. In 2006 and 2007 was technical manager in the project EUChinaGRID where started his work with interoperability between GOS and EGEE.

Vassiliki Andronikou received her MSc from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Depart- ment of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2004. She has worked in the bank and telecommunications sector, while currently she is a research associate in the Telecommunications Laboratory of the NTUA, with her interests focusing on the security and privacy aspects of biometrics and data management in Grid.

Nick Antonopoulos is currently a senior lecturer (US associate professor) at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK. He holds a BSc in physics (1st class) from the University of Athens in1993, an MSc in information technology from Aston University in 1994 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Surrey in 2000. He has over 9 years of academic experience during which he has designed and has been managing advanced Master’s programmes in computer science at the University of Surrey. He has published over 60 research articles in distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks and software agents.

Chimay J. Anumba is a professor and department head of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include advanced engineering informatics, concurrent engineering, intelligent systems, and project management. He has over 400 publications in these fields and has received over £15m in research funding from a variety of sources. Professor Anumba is co-editor of the International Journal of Information Technology in Construction, ITCon. He has

recently held/holds visiting professorships at numerous prestigious universities including Stanford University and MIT (USA). He has also received several awards for his work, including a Doctor of Science (DSc) from Loughborough University (UK) and an honorary Doctorate from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Eleana Asimakopoulou has a first degree in architecture and a PhD in managing natural disasters using Grid technology. She is currently teaching in the Construction Department of Barnfield College, an associated College of the University of Bedfordshire. Eleana is a reviewer in several international conferences and her research interests include Grid technology, emergency response and planning for natural disasters, business continuity, construction and risk management.

Roberto Barbera is a professor at the University of Catania. His research fields are nuclear and particle physics and he is involved in the ALICE Experiment at CERN. Since 1999 he is interested in Grid computing. He is currently an executive member of INFN Grid with coordination responsibilities in many EU funded projects worldwide.

David W. Birchall is an emeritus professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading. David’s research interests are in the area of management learning and innovation practices in organizations. He has particular expertise in the development of systems to support remote learners. David has consulted and lectured throughout the world on aspects of innovation, technology and organization capabilities, organizational learning and knowledge management.

Dino Bouchlaghem is a professor of architectural engineering at Loughborough University. His research interests include collaborative visualization, design for safety and security, disaster management, construction information technology, and design management. He is the coordinator of the CIB International Task Group in Architectural Engineering (TG49) and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Architectural Engineering and Design Management.

Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva is a senior professor in BEM Management School Bordeaux (France). She holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Moscow State University (Russia). She has worked for Medtronic, consulted for Northwest Airlines, Sogerma, Ford Aquitaine, Legrand. Her research is in decision-making and decision support. Her articles were published in internationally recognized journals including Decision Science, European Journal of Operational Research; she is an editor-in-chief of the International Business Management Journal.

Marina Burakova-Lorgnier holds a PhD in social psychology from Rostov-on-Don State University, Russia. She is a lecturer at the École de Commerce Européenne, INSEEC group, France. Her research interests cover such areas as gender identity, social network, social capital, leadership and knowledge management. Currently she seeks to bring together the issues of trust and control in organizational knowledge sharing in a cross-disciplinary perspective. Dr. Burakova-Lorgnier has served as a conference, textbook and journal reviewer and an expert for the Russian local government councils and NGO’s and the Embassy of France in Russia.

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Yun-Heh Chen-Burger is a senior researcher in informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are knowledge management and intelligent systems. Dr Chen-Burger specializes in semantics and knowledge based techniques; and automated support for enterprise and process modeling methods. Her book “Automated Business Modelling” was published in “Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing” series, by Springer in 2005.

Gordon Clapworthy is a professor of computer graphics at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). He has a BSc (Class 1) in mathematics and a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the University of London, and an MSc (dist.) in computer science from City University (London). He has been involved in 18 European projects, coordinating 7 of them.

Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra – Portugal and ag- gregate professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) – Brazil, where he teaches undergraduate curricula. His research interests include data warehousing, parallel and distributed database systems, database self-tuning and bioinformatics.

James Dooley received his BSc in robotics and intelligent machines from the University of Essex (UK). Since then he has been studying for his PhD in computer science from the same university with funding from the British Telecom. Currently he is completing his PhD part-time, whilst working sepa- rately on European projects with City University (UK).

Marco Fargetta graduated in computer engineering in 2002. In 2006, he received his PhD from Catania University, in Italy, with a thesis on advanced Grid scheduling. Since then, he has been involved in several Grid projects. Currently he works with the Consortium COMETA and his activity focuses on the support of HPC applications on Grid computing.

Geoffrey C Fox is a chair of the Indiana University Department of Informatics and director of the Community Grids Laboratory. He holds a PhD in physics (high energy) from Cambridge University (1968). His research interests include parallel computing models on multicore systems, Web service architectures, distributed messaging systems, and cloud computing.

Pedro Furtado is an assistant professor and senior researcher at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. His research interests include data warehousing, parallel and distributed database systems, performance and scalability, distributed data intensive systems. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2000.

Genoveffa Giambona is a research manager at the Research Institute for the Built Environment, University of Reading. Jeni’s research interests are in the area of leadership development, management learning, virtual teams and trust. She also researches meta-evaluation and the study of how learning mechanisms work in different contexts and cultures. She has published and presented at different conferences on these topics and on the subject of meta-evaluation of e-learning programmes.

Emidio Giorgio received his MSc computer science degree, cum laude, in 2003; he begun its col- laboration with INFN on computational grids in 2004, joining the EGEE project in NA3 area, related

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to users training. In the context of the ICEAGE project, he has been the manager for WP4, concerning the operations for its multi-middleware Infrastructure.

Dimitrios Halkos is a research associate in the Telecommunication Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA (2001) and obtained his PhD (2008) in the area of maritime operational research focusing on cargo ships routing and scheduling.

Magdalini Kardara has obtained a Diploma in electrical and computer engineering in 2004 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and an MSc in advanced computing from Imperial College London (2006). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing of NTUA and has a significant expertise on Web services and Grid technologies.

Dimosthenis Kyriazis received his diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2001, a MSc in techno-economic systems (MBA) and his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NTUA (2007) where currently he works as a researcher in the area of Grid computing, scheduling, QoS provision and workflow management in heterogeneous systems and SOA.

Maozhen Li is a lecturer in the School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University, UK. His research interests include grid computing, intelligent systems, service-oriented computing, and semantic web. He has over 50 scientific publications in these areas. He is on the editorial boards ofEncyclopedia of Grid Computing Technologies (IGI) and Applications, and the International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IGI).

Wen-Yang Lin is a professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the director of Library and Information Center in National University of Kaohsiung. He received his PhD in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University in 1994. Dr. Lin has co-edited several special issues of renowned international journals, (co-)authored more than 100 refereed publications, served as co-chair, program chair, program committee member, and session chair for many international conferences. His research interests include data warehousing, data mining, evolutionary computation, sparse matrix technology, and large-scale supercomputing.

Enjie Liu is a senior lecturer in computing at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). She has a BSc in computer science from Southwest University in China and a PhD in telecommunications from Queen Mary, University of London. She has been involved in one previous European project and is currently participating in 4 EPSRC/European projects.

Lu Liu is a research fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He received his MSc degree in data communication systems from Brunel University and PhD degree from University of Surrey. He has worked on peer-to-peer networking for five years and published a number of papers on peer-to-peer networking.

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Areti Manataki is a PhD student in informatics, the University of Edinburgh. She has received a BSc in management science and technology from the Athens University of Economics and Business, and an MSc in artificial intelligence with a distinction from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include knowledge management, semantic web and supply chain management.

Navonil Mustafee is a research fellow in Warwick Business School. He received an MSc in distributed systems and a PhD in Grid computing and simulation from Brunel University. His research interests are in grid computing, parallel and distributed simulation, healthcare simulation, bibliometric analysis and interdisciplinary research in operational research, information systems and applied computing.

Gayathri Nadarajan is pursuing a PhD on semantics-based workflow composition for automatic video processing at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include Grid workflows, automated planning and ontological systems. Prior to this she obtained an MSc in artificial intelligence, has taught in a technical university in Malaysia and worked in the software industry in Ireland.

Salvatore Marco Pappalardo is a professor at the University of Catania. He graduated in software engineering in 2001 and became an informatics trained teacher in 2007. He collaborates with INFN since 2001 on computational grids as a member of middleware development groups in several projects. He designed and developed request brokering, network and trasport layers components for the European Grid Middleware.

Iain Phillips is head of computer science at Loughborough University. With a PhD and BSc from Manchester University Computer Science, he has worked Loughborough University Electronic and Electrical Engineering from 1992 and Computer Science from 1999. His research interests are in networking, specifically Internet performance, ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks.

Marlon E. Pierce is an assistant director of the Community Grids Laboratory at Indiana University. He has a PhD in physics (condensed matter) from Florida State University (1998). His research interests include computing environments and Web portals for computational Grids, Web service architectures, and the application of Web technologies to problems in scientific computing.

Antonio Puliafito is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. His interests include parallel and distributed systems, networking, wireless and GRID computing. He is currently the director of the RFIDLab, a research lab on RFID and wireless, the director of the Centre on Information Technologies Development and their Applications (CIA), the vice-president of the Consorzio Cometa whose aim is to enhance and exploit high performance computing. He is actively working in grid computing and virtualization in the projects TriGrid VL, PI2S2 and RESERVOIR.

Alain Roy is currently an associate researcher with the Condor Project at the University of Wis- consin-Madison in the US. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Chicago in 2001, where he did research about advanced reservations for quality of service across heterogeneous resources. Today, Alain is the Open Science Grid Software Coordinator, where he guides the creation, deployment, and support of the VDT, a grid software distribution used by OSG, EGEE, and other grids.

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Ahmet Sayar is a PhD candidate at Indiana University Computer Science Department. He holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a BSc degree in management engineering from Istanbul Technical University. His research interest is applications of Web technologies to problems in scientific computing and performance problems in distributed systems.

Diego Scardaci was born in Catania, Italy, the 11th September, 1975. Since 2006 he is working as Researcher for the INFN involved in Grid computing activities. He worked on Grid interoperability, Grid security and Grid API development. Moreover, he has been involved in the dissemination of advanced Grid knowledge activities, organizing many induction courses.

Nicholas L. J. Silburn is a research fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading. Nicholas’s background is in engineering and information management within the utility and construction industries. This experience has centered on the design, implementation and management of distributed content management systems to support collaborative engineering design, construction and asset re- cords management. He is currently carrying out research into what factors might influence professional information workers’ information behaviors.

Richard O. Sinnott is a professor at the Glasgow University. He was awarded a BSc (Honours) in theoretical physics from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England in 1988; an MSc in software engineering from the University of Stirling, Scotland in 1983 and a PhD also at Stirling in 1997 in the area of formal modeling of distributed systems. He has worked across a wide range of computing science research areas both in academia and in industry. He has over 100 publications across a range of computing science and application oriented fields, most recently in the area of Grid security and usability especially in the life sciences. He has edited several ITU-T/ISO international standards.

Rob Smith is a principal research associate in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials at Newcastle University. He is a former technical director of the North-East Regional e-Sci- ence Centre and an experienced software developer and consultant in the IT and telecommunication industries.

George Spanoudakis is a professor of software engineering in the Department of Computing of City University London. He has more than 15 years of research experience in this area and has managed several R&D projects in it. Over the last few years his research focuses on service-oriented systems engineering and runtime service based systems verification and adaptation.

Simon J. E. Taylor is the founder and chair of the COTS Simulation Package Interoperability Prod- uct Development Group (CSPI-PDG). He has served as the chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) 2005 to 2008. He is a reader in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, UK.

Theodora Varvarigou is a professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She obtained her diploma from the NTUA (1988), the MS degrees in electrical engineering (1989) and in computer science (1991) and the PhD degree (1991) from Stanford University. She has great experience

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in semantic web technologies and Grids with more than 150 papers in leading journals and conferences and participation and coordination of several EU funded projects.

Rob Wilson is a senior lecturer in management at the Newcastle University Business School, deputy director of the Centre for Knowledge Innovation Technology and Enterprise, and leader of the Social and Business Informatics (SBI) group. Rob’s research interests are in public service innovation: the role that IS plays in organizational change and partnership working.

Yong Yue BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE, is a principal lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire. He has been in academia since 1990 following his eight years experience in industry. His current research interests include geometric modeling, computer graphics, virtual reality, robot planning and AI applications. He has published over 90 refereed journal and conference papers and led a number of research and consultancy projects.

Xia Zhao is a research assistant at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). She has a BSc in computer science & education from Liaoning Normal University (Dalian, China) and an MSc (dist) in software engineering for the e-economy from the University of Leicester (Leicester, UK). She is currently working on 3 European projects.

Andrea Zisman is a reader in the Department of City University. She has been research-active in the areas of automated software engineering and service oriented computing where she has published extensively. Andrea has been principal and co-investigator of various research projects in these areas.

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